Word: unburdens
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...reorganization plan rattled into a third, shell-pocked week. Into the legislative no man's land this time came the starred, earnest members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, each subordinate to the Commander in Chief, each a stout defender of his own military service, each urged to unburden himself to Georgia's cagey Democrat Carl Vinson and his 37-man battle group...
Behind the glass doors of Paris' Elysée Palace one day last week, France's Cabinet wrangled for a record eleven hours. Twice during the discussion angry right-wing ministers stalked out to unburden their grievances in private audiences with France's genial President René Coty, who well knew that if they quit, it would be his job to find another Premier. While Coty did his best to smooth their feathers, harried Félix Gaillard, France's youngest (38) ruler since Napoleon Bonaparte, stalked the corridors of the Elysée palace, nervously...
...days passed, suspicion melted away. From the moment the camp's cooks of the day lit the stove to fry the breakfast eggs, the two groups worked and played together, soon developed the camaraderie of foxhole cronies. They toured nearby castles and monasteries, gradually began to unburden themselves. Says one Oxonian: "When you sit over the same potato pan, peeling, you get to know a man. The most important thing is that as regards authority we are on the same side of the fence that they...
With bedlam in his mind and a quaint profusion of fresh cauliflower in his Rolls-Royce limousine, Spanish-born Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali arrived at Paris' Sorbonne University to unburden himself of some gibberish. His subject: "Phenomenological Aspects of the Critical Paranoiac Method." Some 2,000 ecstatic listeners were soon sharing Salvador's Dalirium. Planting his elbows on a lecture table strewn with bread crumbs, Dali blandly explained: "All emotion comes to me through the elbow." Then he announced his latest finding in critical paranoia. The gamy meat of it: "Everything departs from the rhinoceros horn! Everything departs...
...telephone, Agent Coward muttered a strictly hush-hush number-to which the operator responded with "a shrill scream of laughter" that set poor Noel's conspiratorial nerves jangling. A few seconds later, however, Coward found himself connected with his superior officer, Dallas Brooks, in London and started to unburden...